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INDIFFERENCE.

 

To thee, Indifference! many a strain
Hath many a Nymph addressed in vain;—
Cowley, Munro, and Greville:
These songsters praise thy latent charms,
Affect to lure thee to their arms,
Yet wish thee at the devil!

Ladies will scribble and invoke,
But not to thee their altars smoke,
Where doves are ever cooing;
How can they court thy placid form,
Who to a calm prefer a storm,
Especially of wooing.

The chilling tenor of thy life
Suits not with widow, maid, or wife,
If I have skill in woman;